Ben Feuerherd
Public Safety and Policing Reporter at WNYC (New York, NY)
Covering public safety and policing @wnyc @gothamist. Tips: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Ben Feuerherd
A second suspect turned himself in Tuesday in what police say was the kidnapping and torture of a cryptocurrency investor in a house in SoHo.William Duplessie turned himself in to the NYPD’s major case squad at the 13th Precinct with his attorneys at about 7:45 a.m., a police spokesperson said. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said in an appearance on FOX 5 Tuesday morning that Duplessie will face kidnapping and false imprisonment charges.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Ben Feuerherd
Charles Rangel, a longtime member of Congress from Harlem and founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, died Monday at age 94. Rangel was first elected to Congress in 1971, defeating Rev. Adam Clayton Powell for his seat. He went on to serve 23 terms in the House of Representatives. Rangel was a member of the Harlem “Gang of Four,” a political coalition of Black lawmakers that included former mayor David Dinkins.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Ben Feuerherd
Police Monday were continuing the search for the men they allege badly beat an off-duty NYPD officer — stealing his gun and leaving him in critical condition — in the Bronx early Saturday morning. The NYPD has named 23-year-old Taevon Hargrove as one of the two people wanted in connection with the beating in the Westchester Square area, but said the second person remains unidentified.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Ben Feuerherd
A cryptocurrency investor in SoHo allegedly kidnapped and tortured a man over the course of more than two weeks in an attempt to steal his Bitcoin, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. John Woeltz, 37, was arrested Friday after his 28-year-old victim escaped from Woeltz’s Prince Street home and told an NYPD traffic agent he had been kidnapped, an NYPD spokesperson said. An attorney for Woeltz declined to comment Saturday.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Ben Feuerherd
One worker was killed and two others were injured early Saturday in an explosion aboard a sewage-hauling tanker on the Hudson River near a city treatment plant in Upper Manhattan, the FDNY said. The city-owned vessel exploded at about 10:30 a.m., by the North River Wastewater Treatment Plant off of 138th Street in Harlem, FDNY Deputy Assistant Chief David Simms said at a press conference.
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